<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv977660031"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">rmc:<br>the 3 main svaras l'hatir are:<br><br>1. you're inviting them to actually stay over (and have the beds for them), <br>it's their decision to drive home (therefore at worst only m'sayaia)<br>hb: what about for a lunch meal??? <br>2. Mehhalelin alav shabbat ahhat kedei sheyishmor shabbatot harbe<br>hb: isn't that only for saving a life (physical) and not nec the potential spiritual life of a yid/yidden???<br>3. if you didn't invite them, they would be driving this shabbos anyway <br>(by inviting them, they will actually be doing less driving)<br><br>hb: not nec true imo; they might not be driving at all; they may take a walk to the park, or stay at home and watch football or play ping pong or read, or
whatever.....besides shy should it be on your head that they >>definitiely drive (definite aveira); acc. to your svara, if someone were "going" to murder someone else, then why not sell them the handgun??? (they would end-up buying it from someone esle regardless......)<br><br>btw, there are poskim who allow invites to a notfrum Jew who will drive<br>only on YT (where driving is only a rabbinic prohibition of molid
aish)<br><br>Mordechai Cohen<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>